Re: [PATCH] Tech 'git-apply' that spaces before a tab are candidate for stripping

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 20, 2007, 07:53 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8xbkrkwo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550705190944y44cb57baiccb139b1d649face@mail.gmail.com>

"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:

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> Currently 'git-apply' identify as stealth space a line starting with
> spaces followed by a tab.
>
> This patch updates the algorithm to find spaces + tab also in the
> middle of a line and not only at the beginning.
>
> As example lines like
>
> "#define MY_VALUE   \t 1"
>
> are now identified and cleaned up if option '--whitespace=strip' is
> used.

I specifically did not want to do the above, as it would also munge something like this:

	const char string[] = "abc <HT> de";